Just

This poem came to me just before dawn.  I swear I hear Maya Angelou's voice.

A Poem:  Just

I’m just a human being

Trying to live my life

I’m just another Goddess in disguise

I’m just another woman

Trying to love my life

To see the world with joyful open eyes.

I’m just another goddess

Playing dress-up like a queen

Learning how to live my life

And be a human being.

I’m just another person

Whose life has gone awry

Just another woman learning to get by

I’m just another lover

Trying to live the dream

Just another being, human in extreme.

Dreaming I’m the Goddess in disguise.

I’m just another poet

Hearing voices in my head

In the middle of the nighttime

When I ought to be in bed.

Writing in the darkness

Marking something to be said.

I’m just like you and you like me,

With love and fear and family,

Being, loving, laughing, crying

Trying not to think of dying.

I’m just another goddess in disguise.

I’m just another Goddess being human in my mind.

© Catt Foy, 2016

Poem: Noetic Clay

We are noetic clay. 

Grains of earth, stuff of stars

Coalesc’d, with hair and arms

Imbued, enliven’d by spiritus

 Psyche, anima,

Divine breath, awhirl upon

The winds of time, embrac-ed

By Earth’s gravity, we swarm

From infancy to grave

To rise again and dance.